Best Lawyers recommends Michael Schmittmann as "Lawyer of the Year" and recognizes further 26 Lawyers from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek

Best Lawyers Germany 2018 selected the best lawyers in Germany. The U.S. publisher ranks no less than 27 experts from the business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek among the best lawyers in the varrioust legal fields. Michael Schmittmann is "Lawyer of the Year" for the second time in a row.
 
Best Lawyers surveyed lawyers, who were allowed to recommend competitors outside their own law firm for the ranking. The ninth edition of Best Lawyers Germany was published in Handelsblatt and on BestLawyers.com. For more than three decades, Best Lawyers has been publishing its rankings, which are distributed in more than 70 countries.
 
The following Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek lawyers were nominated in Germany:

Lawyer of the Year: Michael Schmittmann (Copyright and Media Law)

Berlin

Dr. Stefan Proske (Restructuring and Insolvency)
Dr. Andreas Urban (Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions)

Düsseldorf

Dr. Michael Alberts (Real Estate)
Ulrike Gantenberg (Arbitration and Mediation)
Dr. Hans Gummert (Corporate Governance & Compliance Practice, Corporate)
Dr. Anton Horn (Intellectual Property, Technology)
Dr. Georg Jacobs, LL.M. (Intellectual Property)
Dr. Peter Kamphausen (Public)
Dr. Wolfgang Kühn (Arbitration and Mediation)
Dr. Herbert Palmberger (Insurance)
Dr. Katja Plückelmann (Capital Markets, Corporate, Private Equity)
Michael Schmittmann (Information Technology, Media, Regulatory)
Dr. Rainer Velte (Competition/Antitrust, Public Finance)

Hamburg

Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack (Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions)
Kay Jacobsen (Labor and Employment)
Dr. Peter Christian Schmidt (Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Venture Capital)
Christian Spintig (Competition/Antitrust, Intellectual Property)
Dominik von Wissel (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Köln

Dr. Hans-Jochem Lüer, LL.M. (Corporate, Insurance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Restructuring and Insolvency)
Dr. Wilhelm Moll, LL.M. (Labor and Employment)
Prof. Dr. Martin Reufels (Labor and Employment)

München

Dr. Arnold Büssemaker, Licencié en Droit (Restructuring and Insolvency)
Dr. Walter Eberl (Arbitration and Mediation, Litigation)
Dr. Armin Freiherr von Grießenbeck (Construction)
Prof. Dr. Georg Streit (Restructuring and Insolvency)
Astrid Wellhöner, LL.M. Eur. (Labor and Employment)

Stuttgart

Peter Ladwig (Capital Markets, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions)